Fatal Attraction" rings the changes on your atavistic emotions. Walking out of the theater, you might have a sudden desire to club a woolly mammoth and hide your family in a dark cave -- away from people like Glenn Close.
Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas) is laden with Society's gifts -- a high-paying law partnership, a doting wife, an endearing daughter. But he takes a dumb risk. He has a nostril-flarin' encounter one weekend with shapely publishing executive Alex Forest (Close). After the extramarital steam has dissipated, Dan wants to put this aberration behind him, but the woman has other ideas.
Actually, Alex would be a very nice girl -- if she'd only stop threatening men with cutlery. Oh, and Daa-an: Alex is pregnant and wants to keep the baby. "I just want you to face up to your responsibilities," she says with all the sweetness of an anaconda.
And the squeeze begins. First it's phone calls at the office. Then at 2:30 a.m. at home. Dan comes home one afternoon to see Alex......
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